“In visual perception, a color is almost never seen as it really is – as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.” – Josef Albers

Colors are fleeting and influenced by each other and their surroundings. This is why artist and former Bauhaus design school teacher, Josef Albers, believed that combining theory and practice was crucial to mastering color.

The design students have had a workshop with textile designer Trine Tronhjem, who, drawing on Albers’ approach, taught them screen printing, color, and space. Based on color theory, the students worked practically with the method of screen printing, layering stripes in the three primary colors to create secondary and tertiary color sequences.

With individual results of large, textile color sequences measuring 150 × 100 cm, the students were then grouped into larger teams of seven, tasked with creating a spatial experience of the textiles, exploring the relationship between color, form, and space together.